In December 2012, the Russian foreign trade was carried out in a situation of stabilized prices on the main export goods, as well as slow-down of domestic demand. In the Russian Federation, measures are being actively developed to protect domestic producers in a situation where Russia is a...

In September 2012, mixed dynamics of the main Russian foreign trade indices was observed: insignificant growth in the export and a decrease in the import (as compared to September 2011). Russia's accession to the WTO has resulted neither in sharp import growth, nor abolishment of restrictive...

From April 2012, the Russian foreign trade has been in stagnation. In the past few months, growth rates of both export and import fluctuated near the zero level. Russia turned down the EU's request to the WTO to convene a panel of arbitrators to consider the issue of the existing mechanism of...

Deteriorating global market environment in November 2015 has determined further decline of major Russian foreign trade indicators. Growth of the Russian export volume failed to off set the fall of the global commodity prices. Various trade barriers introduced by foreign countries hamper Russia's...

In 2015, the RF foreign economic activity was subject to a set of negative factors: significant reduction of prices on all tradable commodities, contraction of external demand due to slowdown of the world economy, compression of domestic demand due to a fall of income and investment....